Wheel.



L. H. PERLMAN.

WHEEL.

APPLICATION FILED 1uNE24.191e.

LOUIS H. PERLIILAN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

WHEEL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 2R i 91o.

Application led June 2A, i916. Serial No. 105,695.

To all whom, 'it mag) concern.'

Be it known that I, Lotus PERLMAN, a citizen ot' the United States, residing at New York, in l[he county ot' New York and State of N ew York, have invented certain new and uset'ul Improvements in AWheels; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full,

clear, and exact description of the invention,

such as will enable others skilled in the art to which 1t appertains to make and use the same.

In the art of automobile wheels it is Well and skewing or other lateral or twisting' movement has occurred resulting in either immediately bending the wedge anchoring bolt or in delivering the load to the said bolt from the demountable'rirn instead of delivering such load directly to the felly band -or other engaged part of the wheel body.

It is the object of this invention to etl'ecti'vely obviate all such detective-conditions by the provision of means for guiding each wedge to its final location.

TVith this and further objects in view, as will in part hereinafter become apparent and in part be stated, the invention comprises certain novel constructions, con'ibinations and arrangements of parts as subsequently specified Iand claimed.

In the accompanying drawings,4 I

Figure l is a transverse section through the peripheral portion ot' a wheel embodying the features of the present invention, the section being taken on a plane' intersecting one of the wedges, the wedge and its bolt being seen in elevation.

Fig. 2 is a top plan view ot' the parts seen in Fig. 1 with the demountable rim and locking wedge removed.

Fig. 3 is a transverse axial section taken on the plane indicated hy line 83 of Fig. 2.

Referring to the drawing by numerals, 1 indicates the wood telly which is, o1. course, provided with the usual spokes and hub, not seen. A telly band or fixed rim 2 is shrunk,

y or otherwise fixed, on the telly l and is ot' the type provided with a cylindrical body portion terminating at its inner edge in a substantially conical stop iange A demountable, tire-carrying rim 4 is adapted to have one of its edges rest on the Harige 3 and its other edge supported 0n the. locking wedges 5. Only one of the wedges 5 is shown in the drawing, but it is understood, ot' course, that an appropriate number of such wedges is distributed uniformly about the periphery of the wheel body as is the. customary practice. .A bolt (l is anchored in the ielly l for each locking wedge 5, and each of said wedges is provided with a pendent flange 7 apertured to receive said bolt and the fiange itself being engaged by' a nut S threaded onto the bolt G.

The structure as thus far described may be considered conventional in form and may follow the lines of any of the well-known types.

. Arranged at each side of the path of travel `of each wedge 5 are guides which may assume various forms and be connected in different ways while accomplishing the resuit sought. It is preferable, however, to 'form these guides'as )lates 9 stamped outward from the outer' ace ofthe felly band 2, and in order tofprovideperfectly fiat edges to said plates 9 I.the metal of the felly .band is slit along the lines 10, 10 before the plates are stamped outward. The guiding plates 9 are spaced apart a distance slightly greater' than the width f the wedge 5 so that the wedge may be easily introduced between the guides but will be restrained thereby against; any torsional movement-s. The distance to which the plates S) entstand from the surface ot' the folly band 2 may vary,but it is preferable to have them entstand a distance somewhat greater than the distance from the outer face of the -felly band to the outer face of the inner terminus or nose of band to the inner face of the rim -t when in operative posit-ion, so that there will be no contact between the rim and said plates during use of the rim.

That edge of the telly band 2 provided with Hangc 3 is referred to as the inner edge since it is the edge next to the car body when the wheel is applied to an automobile, and the opposite edge is for. the same reason rcferred to as the outer edge. The direction radially away from the axis otlv the 'wheel may also properly he called outward l and thc disliwztion between that direction and.

the outer portion of cel'tnn parte, referring to the outer face of the wheel, will be apparent from the context.

What I claim st- 1. The combination with a elly band, a demountable rim adapted to be mounted thereon and spaced from a portion of the folly bund? land means for retaining the demountable rim on the folly band, one of said means including a locking wedge, of zu plate stamped outward from the folly band at one side of the Wedge in position for preventing torsional movement of the wedge.

2. The combination with a .folly band, a demountable rim adapted to be mounted moms@ `hereon and spaced from a po'ton of the folly band, and means for Yetaning the do mountable rim on the folly band, one of said mea-ns including a locking Wedge, of a. pair' of spaced plates for each Wedge stamped out- Ward :from the folly bend at opposite Sides of the Wedge und having Hub inner edges to engage the wedge for preventing torsional movement of the same,

n testimony whereof I allix my Sgnatue in presence of two Witnesses.

LUS H. PERLMAN. FVitnesses y 

